Comments on: Mobile Tech Minutes — ThinkPad x200 Touch Tablet PC on Video

By: James Kendrick

James Kendrick — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 19:16:16 +0000

The screen is not the most vivid out there, but it doesn’t bother me. If you’re one of those who need a bright, vivid screen you likely won’t like this.

By: Wacomtrig

Wacomtrig — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 18:56:34 +0000

My biggest concern with the multitouch X200T is the modified screen. I am hearing a lot of the complaints about heavy grain, poor vertical viewing angles and poor sharpness on the LCD, compared to the non-touch version.

Any ideas on these thoughts?

By: stel

stel — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 01:41:31 +0000

Sorry, but obviously someone is others are thinking about this issue at the same time and by the time I posted comments, someone else had posted first…

By: stel

stel — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 01:39:46 +0000

I just noticed that on the Lenovo web site the three battery options (4, 6, and 9 cell) are offered on the non-tablet x200. I winder if these also work on the tablet version but the 6 and 9 cells are not offered on the x200t on the web site..

By: James Kendrick

James Kendrick — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 01:35:20 +0000

You can rotate through all 4 orientations but it will only stay in the one portrait. If I had waited it would have flipped back over and given the dialog box I showed earlier.

I have not heard the fan kick on.

By: James Kendrick

James Kendrick — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 01:32:13 +0000

As the earlier commenter correctly pointed out, the non-tablet x200 uses different batteries than the tablet. 4 & 8 cells are the two choices.

By: stel

stel — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 01:28:04 +0000

I was interested in what you said about the batteries. I just ordered an x200t but had only two options: 4 cell and 8 cell, which where the choices the Lenovo rep offered me (I ordered both). There was no mention of 6 cell and 9 cell batteries and I cannot find them on their site. Did they ship you these or how did you get this information? Thanks.

By: bluespapa

bluespapa — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 00:00:04 +0000

Outstanding! I love how the tip appears depending on whether you touch or ink.

I was concerned that if you brought your finger up to the screen with the pen still in your hand, touch would be disabled, but that didn’t happen. Going from one to the other looks as smooth and intuitive as it should be.

You had complained about the screen rotation, with an error message coming up. Is that if you program it to jump into secondary portrait mode? I looked like you can rotate around to that without an error.

I also didn’t hear fan noise, and you had a bunch of windows open simultaneously. My Core Duo sometimes wants me to throw it in the river to cool it off.

By: James Kendrick

James Kendrick — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 23:22:52 +0000

I pointed out to Warner that he was mistaken and he shot a little video today showing it.

By: Jake

Jake — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 22:12:37 +0000

That’s a shame because I was wondering about this and Warner Crocker said it can’t be done in his video at GottaBeMobile.